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DEBTOCRACY- A GREEK FILM WITH LESSONS FOR IRELAND
13 years ago
Friday, December 31, 2010
this is VERY coincidental
yesterday, i just happened to meet a (career) medical officer who just got home from tour #2 (yeah, over there....). we actually were talking about the medical care our service people are receiving AS SOON as they are wounded. it was an interesting conversation
Medical research is part of the military's combat mission, too
By David BrownWashington Post Staff Writer
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN - On most days of his six-month deployment, surgeon David H. Zonies was lucky just to get outside and see the sun. Often, his only break from work was 30 minutes on the treadmill in the physical therapy department. Every day, a half-dozen casualties arrived at the Joint Theater Hospital here, nearly all needing surgery in the next 24 hours, many missing limbs, a few barely clinging to life. The 36-year-old Air Force major was the "trauma czar." His job was to coordinate the patients' care and operate on about a third of them.
At the end of October, however, Zonies took two days away from the job. He exchanged blue scrubs for a brown flight suit, flew to Kandahar Airfield 350 miles to the southwest and presented two papers at a medical conference..........
Thursday, December 30, 2010
my friend mike just turned me on to ratatat
In Ratatat's Dreams
By Maddie Oatman
The first time I saw Ratatat live, the energy of the music prompted me and my college friends to sing through most of the experience—not an unusual reaction for a concertgoer, except when you take into account that Ratatat's songs have no lyrics. A combination of rhythmic force and the lyrical personality of the central riff made us feel encompassed by a rock or hip-hop ballad—soon the entire room was shaking along to the beat............
By Maddie Oatman
The first time I saw Ratatat live, the energy of the music prompted me and my college friends to sing through most of the experience—not an unusual reaction for a concertgoer, except when you take into account that Ratatat's songs have no lyrics. A combination of rhythmic force and the lyrical personality of the central riff made us feel encompassed by a rock or hip-hop ballad—soon the entire room was shaking along to the beat............
there are several maps
this is just one of them. check out the whole article from sociological images. quite interesting indeed
Food Atlas: What Are We Eating, and Where?
by gwen
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
methinks he doth protest too effing much
WND on DADT: Officer asks to be relieved of command over repealby: Pam SpauldingTue Dec 28, 2010 at 15:45:36 PM EST |
"I did not give up my constitutional rights and freedom of religion when I joined the military. I don't believe in subjecting myself to all of the behavior modification and sensitivity training. They're going to try to push the position that this is an acceptable lifestyle." -- an unnamed Army lieutenant colonel, who, according to WND, has "asked to be relieved of command rather than order his troops to go through pro-homosexual indoctrination.".................. |
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
sometimes even being famous doesn't help if you're a woman
me? not only would i have testified, i would have personally begged to lock the cell door on 'em (all. the family that is)
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Harry Potter Actress Refuses to Testify Against Family
LONDON -- The brother of a British Muslim actress who starred in the Harry Potter films pleaded guilty to assaulting his sister, after beating her, forcing her to flee her family home and calling her a "slag" for dating a Hindu man.
Afshan Azad, who played Hogwarts student Padma Patil in four of the movies, refused to testify Monday against her 28-year-old brother, Ashraf, 28, and her 54-year-old father, Abul. Both were found not guilty of threatening to kill her.
During the May 21 row at the family's home in Manchester, England, the 22-year-old actress' father allegedly shouted that he would murder the young actress. Scared for her life, she escaped out of her bedroom window and ran to the police, the Manchester Evening News reported.......
Afshan Azad, who played Hogwarts student Padma Patil in four of the movies, refused to testify Monday against her 28-year-old brother, Ashraf, 28, and her 54-year-old father, Abul. Both were found not guilty of threatening to kill her.
During the May 21 row at the family's home in Manchester, England, the 22-year-old actress' father allegedly shouted that he would murder the young actress. Scared for her life, she escaped out of her bedroom window and ran to the police, the Manchester Evening News reported.......
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Dave M. Benett, Getty Images
Actress Afshan Azad was beaten by her brother and forced to flee her family home for dating a Hindu man, according to authorities. Her brother has pleaded guilty to an assault charge.
i know you all know about this already
but i haven't posted in a few days and i just wanted to personally thank jon stewart. oh, he didn't do this on his own. i know that. i also know the democrats COULDN'T do what jon stewart did.
to those of you who accept what the re-PUG-na-cants attempted to do here, fuck you. really, fuck you
And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
Certainly many supporters, including New York’s two senators, as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, played critical roles in turning around what looked like a hopeless situation after a filibuster by Republican senators on Dec. 10 seemed to derail the bill.
But some of those who stand to benefit from the bill have no doubt about what — and who — turned the momentum around...................
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to those of you who accept what the re-PUG-na-cants attempted to do here, fuck you. really, fuck you
In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow
By BILL CARTER and BRIAN STELTER
Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?
Certainly many supporters, including New York’s two senators, as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, played critical roles in turning around what looked like a hopeless situation after a filibuster by Republican senators on Dec. 10 seemed to derail the bill.
But some of those who stand to benefit from the bill have no doubt about what — and who — turned the momentum around...................
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Comedy Central
Jon Stewart, left, spoke with 9/11 first responders about their health problems on “The Daily Show” on Dec. 16.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
yet ANOTHER example of a religious leader displaying
love, understand, tolerance, humor, warmth, sanity, truth, justice
OR NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS (maybe his hat is too high)
By ROBERT MACKEY
Updated | 7:19 p.m. Leaders of Greece’s small Jewish community objected on Wednesday to televised remarks by a Greek Orthodox bishop who blamed the country’s financial problems on a conspiracy of Jewish bankers and claimed that the Holocaust was orchestrated by Zionists.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece complained to church authorities about the anti-Semitic remarks made by the Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus during an interview on Greek television on Monday, according to a statement (in Greek) on the group’s Web site.*..................
i had not heard this was happening
why isn't msm reporting on this as well? hard to believe it's 2010 isn't it (not just because of this, but because the people of our world allow an entire country to be enveloped by cholera or allow tens of thousands of women and girls to be raped as a weapon of war or allow children to starve or allow people to live without shelter or allow....................
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday.
The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand'Anse as local people feared they were spreading cholera with a magical substance. The area has been largely spared by the outbreak................
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
ricky gervais in the wall street journal
talking about why he's an atheist. no, REALLY
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist
By Ricky Gervais
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- HBO
- Ricky Gervais
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
each and every day that passes, my heart
wants to explode more
House GOP Crushes Bill That Would Protect Against Child Marriage
House GOP Crushes Bill That Would Protect Against Child Marriage
On Thursday night, hours before passing the tax cut compromise, House Republicans thwarted a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child marriage. They opposed it because, they claimed, it might fund abortions.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), was blindsided. After the Child Marriage Protection Act passed the Senate with zero objection on Dec. 1 -- a rare feat these days -- it didn't seem like there was much to worry about.
But just before the vote began, Republican leadership blasted out a "whip alert" to GOP staffers with a message: Vote no. The alert claimed the bill cost too much and that a competing bill, introduced just the day before, would be better..............
no words. i know you know what i feel inside
Caned woman dies, cleric arrested
A Muslim cleric has been arrested in northwest Bangladesh following the death of a woman who was publicly caned as punishment by an Islamic court for an extra-martial affair.
Local police chief Azizul Haq Sarker said Sufia Begum, 50, was accused of having an affair with her stepson and sentenced by a religious court in her village in Rajshahi district.
He said: “Village elders tied 10 canes together and beat her legs.”
The woman who carried out the beating for the elders has also been arrested.
Begum was whipped 40 times on November 12..................
The "Whitest of the Aesir"
The "Whitest of the Aesir"
and i also read this from DoubtingTimmy on twitter
and i also read this from DoubtingTimmy on twitter
Thor vs Right Wing Lunatics
Monday, December 20, 2010
if you get a chance to see them,
you SHOULD. they're good. REALLY good AND they WILL make you, at the very least, smile.
who am i talking about you ask? les ballets trockadero de monte carlo, i answer
Part Goofy, Part Glorious, All Man
By GIA KOURLAS
The first thing you should know about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo’s current engagement at the Joyce Theater is that there isn’t a nutcracker in sight. The second is that a stage filled with snow isn’t all there is to the notion of seasonal festiveness. This superb male group, known as the Trocks, appeared in all of its mallerina glory — that is, man plus ballerina — on Friday in a program of repertory works that included “Les Lac des Cygnes” (“Swan Lake,” Act II), as well as the New York premieres, both staged by Elena Kunikova, of the pas d’action from “Harlequinade” (1997) and “Valpurgeyeva Noch” (or “Walpurgisnacht”) from 2009............
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Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
Raffaele Morra, left, and Fernando Medina Gallego, of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, in “Harlequinade.” More Photos »
wicked cool!
and since i'm up at those hours (you know i keep odd hours!) it should be no problem to see the eclipse
Rare lunar eclipse to start early Tuesday morning
Lunar eclipses happen about two times a year, but this one is unusual. Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year. An eclipse hasn't fallen on the date since 1638, and will not happen again until 2094..,
Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Dec. 17, 2010: Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below."
That is, except during a lunar eclipse.
The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth's shadow. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy shadow..............
Rare lunar eclipse to start early Tuesday morning
ARI ALTSTEDTER
A blood red moon awaits those determined to stay awake for the total lunar eclipse that starts at 1:33 (ET) Tuesday morning. It's the first one to fall on the winter solstice in more than 300 years, according to NASA.Lunar eclipses happen about two times a year, but this one is unusual. Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year. An eclipse hasn't fallen on the date since 1638, and will not happen again until 2094..,
Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Dec. 17, 2010: Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below."
That is, except during a lunar eclipse.
image: A similar lunar eclipse in Nov. 2003. Credit: Jim Fakatselis. [more]
Sunday, December 19, 2010
i don't like guns. i HATE guns
i don't like violent video games. really. if i play a game, it's usually spelling or puzzle or animals running around.
HOWEVER, man, this commercial makes me want to run out and get call of duty: black ops.
i think it's the young girl with the glasses in the blue/purpleish shirt. really. it's NOT like me. so i have decided this is one hell of a great commercial (contrary to my beliefs)
HOWEVER, man, this commercial makes me want to run out and get call of duty: black ops.
i think it's the young girl with the glasses in the blue/purpleish shirt. really. it's NOT like me. so i have decided this is one hell of a great commercial (contrary to my beliefs)
i want to be happy
i want to be overjoyed. i'm just afraid. i'm afraid of what will happen when the close minded, intolerant, judgmental, right wing NUTJOBS take over.
that said (and i hate to be a downer, but 'those people' (meaning the HOLIER THAN THOU asswipes)
we are ALL equal. we all MUST have the SAME rights. not MORE rights, THE SAME RIGHTS. that is ALL ANYONE WANTS. there is NO agenda. there is NO master plan. we all must have the SAME rights.
thank you to those who voted for the civil rights of all of our military members. thank you to those who have served in the past and are serving now and will serve in the future (gay, straight, to the left or the right or anything in between. JUST THANKS is all)
'Don't ask, don't tell' is repealed by Senate; bill awaits Obama's signing
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writer The U.S. military will for the first time in history allow gays to serve openly after the Senate voted Saturday to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," the policy that has required such troops to hide their sexual identity or risk being expelled from the services.
While opponents said repeal would create a battlefield distraction that could endanger troops, supporters drew parallels to the military's decision to end racial segregation in the 1950s and the admission of women to military service academies in the 1970s.
"This is the defining civil rights initiative of this decade," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. "Congress has taken an extraordinary step on behalf of men and women who've been denied their rightful integrity for too long."....................
DADT passes Senate, bill on way to President for signature. Historic civil rights victory.
UPDATE: 3:30PM 65-31 DADT bill passes the Senate. Next stop, Obama for signature. Then the hard work begins... read below. GOPers Burr (R-NC) and Ensign (R-NV) voted with us as well, after first voting to kill the bill by filibuster.
Please join us in thanking all the troops and vets who got us here.
UPDATE: The final Senate vote on DADT is expected at 3pm Eastern. We should easily win that. Then the bill goes straight to the White House for the President's signature, from what I understand.
And here's the vote count. We got all the Ds, exception Manchin, who chickened out and didn't vote at all (history repeats itself and West Virginia takes a proud stand against the major civil rights bill of the day, again). And we got the following Rs: Snowe; Collins; Murkowski; Voinovich; Brown; Kirk...............
Friday, December 17, 2010
i HATE bugs of any and every kind
i hate them. i am afraid of them (i'm not afraid of the dark or motorcycle gangs or snakes or rats or the like). an ant can send me into convulsions BUT I LOVE LOVE LOVE LADYBUGS
found at the politicall carnival
found at the politicall carnival
i'm a donor (well on the registry)
and i wasn't approached by a model in a mall wearing a short skirt and a lab coat. my work arranged it and there was a minimal charge (like 10 or 20 dollars) to me. i'm uncertain if work paid another fee on top of that or not. i know my insurance company was NOT charged for this. it took a matter of seconds and it was just a mouth swab. (if you are a match to someone, there is indeed another more complicated procedure you must endure). i've not been matched but i'm ready to go if called.
one has to be pretty low to scam the public not to mention the people WHO NEED THE MARROW TRANSPLANTS..........
please consider being a donor too. here's the legit site national marrow donor program from their site, here's what it says about the cost of registering:
"- Q: Why is there sometimes a cost associated with joining the registry?
- A: The total cost to add a new member to the Be The Match Registry is about $100. This includes the cost of the testing needed to match donors to searching patients and related costs.
- Be The Match relies on financial contributions to help cover the costs of adding members to the registry. Others have contributed toward the costs for you to join today. However, there are not always enough funds to cover the numbers of donors needed, so sometimes new members are asked to pay some of the registration costs when they join.
- Your contribution will make it possible for more people like you to join in the future. Every gift helps make life-saving transplants a reality for more patients — contribute now."
Models in short skirts, lab coats scammed bone marrow donors: claim
Call it a case of seduction for a good cause.
A New England bone marrow registry is under investigation after using models in short skirts and lab coats to convince members of the public to submit to a bone marrow sample.
What the models allegedly did not tell the donors -- who were told they could potentially save a life by signing up -- is that their health insurance would be charged $4,300 for the procedure.
Caitlin Raymond International Registry, a group that works to match bone marrow donors with those in need of a transplant, allegedly spent $40,000 to $50,000 a week hiring models to work booths at malls and sports events, convincing passersby -- mostly men -- to submit a to a DNA swab, the Nashua Telegraph reports................
hmmmmmmmmm
a pile of shite is a pile of shite is a pile of shite is a pile of shite rose is a rose by any other name
Blackwater Founder in Deal to Sell Company
by ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and BEN PROTESS
........Erik D. Prince, founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, has reached a deal to sell his embattled firm to a small group of investors based in Los Angeles who have close ties to Mr. Prince, according to people briefed on the deal...........
.......................One of the lead investors in the deal is Jason DeYonker of Forté Capital Advisors, who has a long relationship with Mr. Prince and Blackwater. He helped advise Mr. Prince in his development of Blackwater’s business plan when the company was founded and helped negotiate the company’s first training contracts with United States government agencies and the company’s expansion of its training center in Moyock, N.C. In addition, he managed the Prince family’s money from 1998 to 2002. The other lead investor is Manhattan Growth Partners, a private equity firm in New York.......
Thursday, December 16, 2010
nothing to add here. i knew this already just by observing
The Gender Imbalance in Family Movies
by gwen,
Larry Harnisch, of The Daily Mirror, sent in a link to a story at the NYT regarding study released by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media about the under-representation of women and girls in “family” movies — that is, movies rated G, PG, and PG-13. The authors looked at all English-language fictional G-rated films released in the U.S. or Canada between September 2006 and September 2009 (a total of 22 movies). They also looked at the 50 highest-grossing films for both PG- and PG-13-ratings, meaning a total of 122 movies is included in the analysis. They focused on characters that were either mentioned by name or spoke at least one word in the movie, leading to a sample of 5,554 characters. Of those, 70.8% were male and 29.2% were female.
Consistent with patterns in Hollywood in general, women made up a small proportion of directors, writers, and producers in the movies studied:........
you know i try to be open and honest and understanding
i try to accept people for who they are without putting my beliefs upon them. HOWEVER, i'm not that kind of person. i know it. i admit it
so, when someone i consider a friend (and i don't use that term lightly) says they even LIKE ayn rand or her books, i cannot ever look at them in the same way again.(even her pretentious made up fucking name annoys me)
there, i've said it. i feel good too
Best Press Release Ever?
By Nick Baumann
Last week, Facebook titan/world's youngest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg joined a group of other super-rich individuals (including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) who are promising to give at least half of their money to charity. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people probably think this was a good and praiseworthy development: the super-rich have benefited enormously from our society, and it's nice of them to give back. But not everyone thinks that way. Take the Ayn Rand Center, which is dedicated to promoting the memory and Objectivist philosophy of the famed novelist. The center's Don Watkins was horrified by Zuckerberg's decision:..........
even when faux 'news' KNOWS the re-pug-naCANTs effed up
they don't blame the re-pug-naCANTs at all. hell, they don't even MENTION them. they blame the entire congress.
nope. THE RE-PUG-NACANTS voted to NOT help 9/11 first responders. YUP they did whether faux 'news' says it or not. it's what happened.
Railing against failure of 9/11 health bill, Fox News analyst doesn’t mention Republicans
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. is mad. He's mad that Congress did not pass health benefits for 9/11 first responders. But he's not mad enough to explain why.
The bill was opposed almost exclusively by Republicans, who demanded Democrats first pass tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
In a three minute monologue broadcast Monday during Fox & Friends, Johnson said simply that "Congress" was to blame.........
nope. THE RE-PUG-NACANTS voted to NOT help 9/11 first responders. YUP they did whether faux 'news' says it or not. it's what happened.
Railing against failure of 9/11 health bill, Fox News analyst doesn’t mention Republicans
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. is mad. He's mad that Congress did not pass health benefits for 9/11 first responders. But he's not mad enough to explain why.
The bill was opposed almost exclusively by Republicans, who demanded Democrats first pass tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
In a three minute monologue broadcast Monday during Fox & Friends, Johnson said simply that "Congress" was to blame.........
Fox & Friends On 9/11 Health Care Bill: A Whitewash Of GOP Obstructionism Set To Music
As regular Fox & Friends viewers know, it's sometimes hard to separate the hosts' truly outrageous segments out from the non-stop barrage of falsehoods, GOP talking points, and cheap shots at Democrats. Today, however, was not one of those days, as Fox & Friends contributor and frequent guest host Peter Johnson Jr. set a new low in faux sanctimonious outrage, and in carrying water for the GOP. That's because today, Johnson gave an entire monologue attacking the U.S. Senate for not acting on the 9/11 health care bill in which he completely whitewashed the shameful GOP obstructionism that led to its failure. Instead, he lectured both sides of the Senate for failing to pass the bill, and punctuated his speech with music:
a festivus miracle
BUT, i'm still not happy. i know this will still take YEARS to REALLY pass (and stay passed). i HOPE I'M WRONG though
House Votes to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
not that you need it but here's a list of who voted and how they voted
House votes again to end 'don't ask, don't tell'
House lawmakers on Wednesday again approved a bill to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law, delivering renewed momentum to the years-long campaign to end the ban on gays in the military ahead of a possible Senate vote next week.
The House voted 250 to 175 to repeal the 17-year-old law; 15 Republicans voted for the bill, and 15 Democrats voted against it.
The 75-vote margin was wider than a similar House vote in May, when language ending the ban was part of the annual defense authorization bill. That bill failed a procedural vote in the Senate last week, requiring another vote in the House on a separate measure to end to the gay ban...............
Big news.
House Votes to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday handily approved a repeal of a ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, ratcheting up the pressure on Senate Republicans who have resisted holding a vote on procedural grounds. The measure that the House approved, 250 to 175, had originally been part of a broader military policy bill. Last week, the Senate failed to break a Republican filibuster of that measure, with only one Republican, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, voting to advance the bill...........not that you need it but here's a list of who voted and how they voted
House votes again to end 'don't ask, don't tell'
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post Staff WriterHouse lawmakers on Wednesday again approved a bill to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law, delivering renewed momentum to the years-long campaign to end the ban on gays in the military ahead of a possible Senate vote next week.
The House voted 250 to 175 to repeal the 17-year-old law; 15 Republicans voted for the bill, and 15 Democrats voted against it.
The 75-vote margin was wider than a similar House vote in May, when language ending the ban was part of the annual defense authorization bill. That bill failed a procedural vote in the Senate last week, requiring another vote in the House on a separate measure to end to the gay ban...............
House passed standalone DADT bill, 250 - 175. Over to the Senate again.
Big news.
The House just passed the DADT bill by a 250 - 175 margin. Fifteen Republicans voted yes while fifteen Democrats voted no. Nine (5Ds/4Rs) didn't vote. Barney Frank announced the vote.
This shows real progress. On May 27th, the DADT amendment passed by a margin of 234 - 194. Back then, only five GOPers voted yes and 26 Democrats voted no with 10 not voting. We picked up ten GOP votes. .............
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Republic of Gilead: Rachel Maddow interviews Ugandan MP David Bahati
Republic of Gilead: Rachel Maddow interviews Ugandan MP David Bahati: "On the December 8th edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow interviewed David Bahati, the Ugandan MP who authored a proposed anti-g..."
this fucked up piece o' steamin' shite tells YOU (and me for that matter)
the TRUE meaning of christmas (is a survival pack)
at first i thought this was from the onion
Obama taps Jon Bon Jovi for new advisory board
By Ed O'Keefe
pic: Rocker Jon Bon Jovi. (Skip Bolen Photo)
i really am falling in love with ok go
from the description on youtube: This video documents the 8.5-mile parade we took through Los Angeles using Range Rover's Pulse of the City app to checkin and spell out the words "OK GO" with the route. Make your own journey around your city, and be featured in a similar documentation video we'll make in 2011. Details at http://www.helloevoque.com/okgo
Directed by OK Go
Produced by Shirley Moyers
Director of Photography: Starr Whitesides
Editor: Todd Sullivan
http://www.okgo.net
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
GREAT dissection of an article in ny mag by evil slutopia
Has The Pill Created A Fertility Crisis?
The Dec. 6, 2010 issue of New York includes an article (the cover story) entitled "Waking Up From The Pill". In it, Vanessa Grigoriadis covers the 50th anniversary of the oral contraceptive while completely condescending women and missing the point. She claims that The Pill may have inadvertently caused a fertility crisis, because having sexual freedom somehow disconnects women from their bodies (and apparently their brains?).
According to Ms. Grigoriadis, The Pill turns a woman's body into "an efficient little non-procreative machine" to which I would respond, well duh. She wrote that The Pill's exactly 28-day cycle, is "a nice effect, but it’s not real. And there’s a cost to this illusion"... Why?
Apparently she believes that having control over our bodies makes us lose control of our bodies:..
wow!
Tara McGinley
you can buy this one: (here but it's a british website)
and dangerous minds
found this other card by joe (not for sale)
Monday, December 13, 2010
i like this idea a LOT
8 Great Ways to Spend A Year
Noah Scalin
and it goes on to list 8 different ideas people had. hmmmmmmmmm. i really want to do this, but it has to be simple. maybe a PICTURE a day?
(my favorite is the people who are going to thank someone each day and document it)
check out the link above for more info
Noah Scalin
Noah Scalin is the creator of Skull-A-Day and author of Skulls. His latest book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal is designed to help people make their own yearlong creative projects. You can see all 365 of the skulls Noah made HERE
and it goes on to list 8 different ideas people had. hmmmmmmmmm. i really want to do this, but it has to be simple. maybe a PICTURE a day?
(my favorite is the people who are going to thank someone each day and document it)
check out the link above for more info
look at this look at this look at this
Sunday, December 12, 2010
this is a DAMN GOOD op-ed by frank rich
Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian
EACH Aug. 4, my wife Alex and I visit a church to light candles for two people we loved who both died tragically on that day two years apart — my mother, killed at 64 in a car crash, and Alex’s closest friend from graduate school, killed by AIDS at half that age. My mother was Jewish but loved the meditative serenity of vast cathedrals. Alex’s friend, John, was a Roman Catholic conflicted by a religion that demonized his sexuality. Our favorite pilgrimage is to an Episcopal church, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, not as some sectarian compromise but because of its AIDS chapel, a haunting reminder of the plague that ravaged that city’s population, especially its gay men, some time ago..................
By FRANK RICH
wow, someone who actually AGREES with me on bonobo bono!
(note: i'm NOT a giant fan of lennon though)
John Lennon vs. Bono: The death of the celebrity activist
By William Easterly
The recent release of the Beatles' music on iTunes, coupled with the anniversary of John Lennon's tragic death in New York City 30 years ago this past Wednesday, has brought on a wave of Beatles nostalgia. For so many of my generation, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Lennon was a hero, not just for his music but for his fearless activism against the Vietnam War.
Is there a celebrity activist today who matches Lennon's impact and appeal? The closest counterpart to Lennon now is U2's Bono, another transcendent musical talent championing another cause: the battle against global poverty. But there is a fundamental difference between Lennon's activism and Bono's, and it underscores the sad evolution of celebrity activism in recent years......................
look at this headline
i'm about to pop a vein here. whatever happened between assange and the two women and whatever happens NOW, is NOT a 'fault of feminism'. assange is NOT a VICTIM of feminism. however i tend to lean in this case (believing he is innocent of rape and or sexual misconduct or not) is NOT the point here. what IS the point is, all of this shite has NOTHING to do with 'feminism'.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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